A successful artist with a doting husband, Isabel Dryland knows she
should be grateful for her happy life. It's a complete reversal from the
one she led before, when normalcy seemed out of reach, after a violent
assault she cannot remember left her shattered and scarred. Even though
the memory was lost, the nagging feeling that she was damaged goods and
the lingering effects of her injuries kept her questioning her sanity at
times.
Tom, her husband, thinks a move will be the fresh start they need, and
has even found the perfect house: a country estate that reminds him of
one he admired in his youth. But all Isabel feels when she visits is an
overwhelming sense of dread. Betrayed by her instincts so often before,
she decides to trust Tom's, to accept the move and learn to love their
new home over time.
Instead, she learns that beneath the pretty façade of their new home
lurk dark secrets powerful enough to bring her own trauma back to the
fore. There is an uncanny familiarity about the place, as if it were
infected by the experiences she hoped to escape. And the recurring
presence of a mysterious stranger further disturbs her, giving her the
sensation of being a predator's stalked prey.
Isabel struggles to determine whether her fear is caused by memory
alone, or by threats existing very much in the present. To find out,
she'll have to finally close the book on what occurred so many years
ago--but how do you heal from a past you cannot recall, when only the
truth about your past can set you free?
